The Essential Hal Clement Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres

Hal Clement

ISBN 10: 1886778078 / ISBN 13: 9781886778078

Published by NESFA Press, Framingham, MA, 2000

About this Item

First edition.Ê Ex-library.Ê Dust jacket is in excellent condition, with no library markings; a couple of small scratches to rear; now in new removable protective cover.Ê Green cloth covered boards with silver print on spine. Pages clean and unmarked, except for these library marks: Stamps on front free end paper; library stamp on top edge of closed pages; pencilled cataloging information on copyright page.Ê Acid free paper.Ê NESFA Press hard cover with dust jacket, first edition Feb. 2000 (stated), ISBN: 9781886778078, 506 pages.Ê Cover art by the author, using the name George Richard.Ê 8vo (5.75" x 8.75") Introduction by Ben Bova.Ê Stories: Cold Front; Proof; Raindrop; Longline; Planetfall; Sunspot; The Mechanic; Attitude; Halo; Impediment; Technical Error; Bulge; Avenue of Escape; Status Symbol; The Logical Life; Stuck With It; Uncommon Sense (winner, 1996 Retro-Hugo for best short story of 1945).Ê Ê.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Essential Hal Clement Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres
• Publisher: NESFA Press, Framingham, MA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886778078
• ISBN 13: 9781886778078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: George Richard
• Edition: first edition.
• Printing: 1st printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This volume contains seventeen of Hal Clement's stories. They range from near-future earth to the distant Magellanic Cloud. Their protagonists are tachyonic aliens and teen-aged humans, retired explorers and beings so vast and slow that they don't even notice mankind, criminals, pirates and teachers. Hal Clement's stories, like his novels, show that the natural world contains wonders and possibilities which hardly require any additional invention-yet he supplies it, creating stories which turn on scientific puzzles or which lead us to look at old notions in a new light.

About the Author

Hal Clement was the pseudonym of the exemplar of hard science fiction, Harry C. Stubbs. He created the pseudonym while working for his Master's degree in Astronomy at Harvard, fearing his professor would not want him to be "wasting" his time. He did not know that this same professor submitted science fiction to Hugo Gernsback's magazines. Hal's first published story was "Proof" which appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Then, as with many other SF writers, the War intervened. Following bomber combat duty in Europe with the Army Air Corps in World War II, Harry returned home, learned to drive a car, became a high-school chemistry teacher, and wrote Hugo-winning science fiction. Hal was a fixture at many SF conventions, where he always had time to talk to his fellow fans.